A/N: Wow this one's pretty short. Enjoy it anyways and as always comments and constructed critics is appreciated. Comments would make me very happy actually.
2. Light
Summary: One would think that after escaping from There, with all its harsh, brilliant lighting, that Chell would welcome the darkness. But she was afraid of it instead.
Genre: General
Characters: Chell
Warnings: None.
Chell was afraid of the dark.
It was an unusual thing; one would think that after escaping from There, with all its harsh, brilliant, fluorescent lighting, she would welcome the darkness.
But she didn't. On the first night outside, she had curled up with her companion cube, eyes shut tightly against the darkness, wishing for the morning to come faster.
She had been institutionalized following her reemergence into human society. The night nurses knew better than to turn off the lights in her room. Her screams had been heard throughout half the building.
Chell was allowed free range of the hospital, and sometimes she wandered down to one of the recreation rooms to paint. The doctors thought it was good for her. Her paintings were always bright colors; the most predominant were bright blue, and bright gold. She claimed that the robots in the paintings were her best friends, but nobody had been able to verify it and she wouldn't elaborate any more.
Sometimes she painted other robots too; reds, purples, oranges, yellows, greens, pinks; also all her friends. Colorful and bright.
Still, she refused to sleep with the lights off.
So it came as a surprise to everyone at the hospital when Chell was found outside at night, looking through a telescope at the full moon. As she was led back inside, she kept saying that she was looking for one of her friends.
The process repeated itself for a few weeks; she was found looking through the telescope, led back inside. Nothing stopped her; not new locks on her door, not extra security guards.
Until one night. She came back in by herself, telling the nurse that she had found her friend.
And went to sleep with her light off.
